Highway of Death - Bolivia
I thought I had seen some scary roads including one I travelled to a ski resort outside of Tehran, Iran that had those ‘corner mirrors’ installed at curves to keep people from running in to each other, but this road in Boliva is one I would not want to drive even when there are no other vehicles on the road.
The YouTube slide show above shows photos of the North Yungas Road in Bolivia and its danger is legendary, killing about 100 travellers annually. The road descends from cool altiplano terrain at 12,000 ft down to the rain forest at 1,000 ft.
Update: I removed the photo and text relating to the road carved into the rock and created a separate post for it since that road is the Guoliang Road/Tunnel in China and is not in Bolivia.
HatTip: A Welsh View
I have been reading on the Internet that the firs photo you have is the Guoliang Tunnel in China … Not in Bolivia. However there is a Video out that shows the same photo and states it is in Bolivia
Comment by Gary Bailey — February 1, 2007 @ 10:58 pm
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Pingback by Road of Death - China - not Bolivia at the Dogberry Patch — February 22, 2007 @ 6:28 pm
I rode on the back of a truck loaded with cargo and a bunch of campesinos from the gas station on the road leaving La Paz all the way to Caranavi. I was in the Peace Corp at the time in 1970. To make things even worse, it was raining most of the way down. I think there is a new road being built to replace this one because it is so dangerous.
Comment by Mike Green — March 20, 2007 @ 4:22 pm